Re: [Fwd: ] <WARNING: Colourful language inside>

["Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>]

>hehe
>aah the joys of the school buses.. I always caught school specials run by
government
>buses whilst at high school and I always thought about how amazing it was
to punish
>some poor kid by not letting people off until X stop because some other
group of
>kids was mucking up! Most cases on my bus it was the kids who were going
with the
>bus as far as the terminus, who would persistently ring the stop bell, much
to the
>dismay of the driver, who would get sick of stopping at every stop without
anyone
>getting off. He would decide he was an express an ignore the bell even if
you
>personally asked him to get off, insisting that you genuinely wanted to get
off! I
>was even involved in an interesting diversion - the driver decided that he
may as
>well take a few short cuts, since he wouldn't be stopping anyway...
>
Of course, some drivers took the more sensible and less potentially risky
from a legal point of view (just how much blame can be apportioned to the
bus company who refused to let the child off at their stop if they were run
over or attacked on the way home from a bus stop several kms down the road)
of just turning the buzzer off...